What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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Tomorrow I am getting on an airplane with one child to spend the weekend with my parents and siblings before Thanksgiving (the opportunity arose because my brother is in the same hemisphere -- he lives in New Zealand at the moment). I am bringing to read:

1) Reading Seattle: The City in Prose , a collection of short stories by local authors written over the past 7 decades or so.

2) The Giver by Lois Lowry (keeping up with my daughter)

3) Digital Photo Projects, a Barnes and Noble publication -- since I am digitizing so many photos, I might as figure out what I am doing.

Just a little light reading... all paperbacks because I only have carry-on baggage for just a weekend trip.

Now I need to fold laundry so I have some to pack.
 
Hydrogen Cyanide said:

2) The Giver by Lois Lowry (keeping up with my daughter)
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Great book! I love using this book in class. It's an easy enough read that my struggling readers are able to follow the story, but there's enough meat in it that my high level readers are able to get into some of the thematic elements. The follow up, Gathering Blue is good also.
 
I'm reading 'Big Trouble' by Dave Barry. Lots of characters and some swearing, but no plot. Not yet, anyway.

I think I've lost my sense of humour. This sort of book used to make me laugh greatly, now I barely raise a smile.
 
I'm reading "Philosophy and Atheism" by Kai Nielson. I find it a little heavy though. Has anyone read "Atheism: The Case Against God" by George H. Smith? I'm looking for a book dealing with Atheism that is geared a little more for the lay person.
 
The Science of Superman -- by Mark Wolverton, Roger Stern

A book that scientifically explains the possilbe origins for all of the Man of Steels powers.
 
"Undaunted Courage by the late, great Stephen Ambrose."

Great book, I learned more about the mission of discovery than all my time in school, and watching Schoolhouse Rock.
 
hgc said:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon
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I read that a few weeks ago. I enjoyed it; it was v easy and quick to read (I would have like it to be a few hundred pages longer if it was more of the same).

It was a very interesting exploration of the world of someone with Asperger's Syndrome and a who-dunnit too.
 
Joshua Korosi said:
I'm reading The New Complete Guide To Beekeeping by Roger Morse.
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Joshua, does the word "obsessive" figure in your dictionary at all? I mean the bees, and Cleopatra? :p ;)

As I'm going to TAM3 and Frederik Pohl will be there I'm re-reading some of his books. I've just started "The Age of The Pusseyfoot".
 
CptColumbo: Some years ago, the sci-fi author Larry Niven published a little essay called "Man of steel, Woman of kleenex", about what difficulties Supes might have had in real life.

It was quite funny, he speculated that Superman's ah...ejaculate might well be invulnerable as well, which leaves the image of millions of little sperm crawling around the Kent household, looking for something to fertilize....
 
Bikewer said:
CptColumbo: Some years ago, the sci-fi author Larry Niven published a little essay called "Man of steel, Woman of kleenex", about what difficulties Supes might have had in real life.

It was quite funny, he speculated that Superman's ah...ejaculate might well be invulnerable as well, which leaves the image of millions of little sperm crawling around the Kent household, looking for something to fertilize....
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The essay can be found here, with a brief rebuttal here, for those who want to take Niven seriously.
 
Bikewer said:
CptColumbo: Some years ago, the sci-fi author Larry Niven published a little essay called "Man of steel, Woman of kleenex", about what difficulties Supes might have had in real life.

It was quite funny, he speculated that Superman's ah...ejaculate might well be invulnerable as well, which leaves the image of millions of little sperm crawling around the Kent household, looking for something to fertilize....
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Whoah, whoah, whoah.

Don't mess with the "S."

I'll check it out, but watch it.

Sorry, just a huge Superman fan.
 
If I ever get the time, I should read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass; Disgrace and The Da Vinci Code, but at this pace I won't read anything until Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince comes out...
 
Just started "Will in the World"...by Greenblatt (sp?), a look at the world of Shakespear. Very much enjoying it...
 
Mr Clingford said:
I read that a few weeks ago. I enjoyed it; it was v easy and quick to read (I would have like it to be a few hundred pages longer if it was more of the same).

It was a very interesting exploration of the world of someone with Asperger's Syndrome and a who-dunnit too.
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Funny. I thought it was just long enough. More of the same would have started to become torturous.
 
The Complete Peanuts 1953-1954 . Just got my copy a couple of days ago.

In about a week it will be The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. Ordered it a few days ago, amazon.fr will take 9-10 days to deliver.
 
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